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- cavilling,
- contentious,
- conventionalized,
- disputatious,
- extrinsic,
- fine,
- forensic,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- hair-splitting,
- impersonal,
- jurisprudent,
- jurisprudential,
- literal,
- litigious,
- narrow-minded,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- outward,
- pedantic,
- pettifogging,
- quibbling,
- strict,
- stylized,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- surface
- formalistic
collapse - concerned with or characterized by rigorous or adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art); "highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'" related words >
- accordant,
- anal,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- corresponding,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formulary,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- harmonious,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- kosher,
- legalistic,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nominal,
- orthodox,
- outward,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puristic,
- simpering,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- traditionalist,
- uptight
- outward
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- relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"
- toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!" related words >
- apparent,
- apparently,
- appearing,
- bodily,
- carnal,
- conventionalized,
- cortical,
- epidermic,
- evident,
- exomorphic,
- exterior,
- exteriorly,
- external,
- externally,
- extraneous,
- extraorganismal,
- extrinsic,
- false,
- fleshly,
- foreign,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- forth,
- fringe,
- impersonal,
- legalistic,
- manifest,
- material,
- mundane,
- nominal,
- nonsubjective,
- objective,
- observable,
- obvious,
- on the outside,
- on the surface,
- open,
- openly,
- ostensible,
- out,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward-facing,
- outwardly,
- outwards,
- over,
- pedantic,
- peripheral,
- physical,
- pretended,
- public,
- publically,
- roundabout,
- secular,
- seeming,
- shallow,
- skin-deep,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- superficially,
- surface,
- temporal,
- terrestrial,
- to all appearances,
- visible,
- without,
- worldly
- extrinsic
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- not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid" related words >
- acquired,
- adrift,
- alien,
- apparent,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- conventionalized,
- cortical,
- epidermic,
- exomorphic,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraorganismal,
- extraterrestrial,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fringe,
- immaterial,
- impersonal,
- impertinent,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- intrusive,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- legalistic,
- nihil ad rem,
- nominal,
- nonessential,
- nonsubjective,
- not at issue,
- objective,
- off the subject,
- open,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- parenthetical,
- pedantic,
- peripheral,
- public,
- roundabout,
- seeming,
- strange,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- ulterior,
- unearthly,
- unessential,
- unrelated
- impersonal
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- having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer"
- not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" related words >
- Olympian,
- abstract,
- aloof,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- candid,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold-blooded,
- colorless,
- constrained,
- conventionalized,
- cool,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- emotionless,
- equal,
- equitable,
- evenhanded,
- expressionless,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraorganismal,
- extrinsic,
- fair,
- forbidding,
- foreign,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- guarded,
- icy,
- impartial,
- impassive,
- inaccessible,
- indifferent,
- introverted,
- just,
- legalistic,
- lofty,
- matter-of-fact,
- mechanical,
- modest,
- neutral,
- nominal,
- nonsubjective,
- objective,
- offish,
- outlying,
- outside,
- outward,
- pedantic,
- poker-faced,
- prim,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- selfless,
- shrinking,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stiff,
- strait-laced,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- subdued,
- superficial,
- suppressed,
- surface,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unbiased,
- uncolored,
- uncongenial,
- undazzled,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unimpassioned,
- uninfluenced,
- unjaundiced,
- unprejudiced,
- unprepossessed,
- unselfish,
- unswayed,
- withdrawn,
- wooden
- ceremonial
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- marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb" related words >
- High-Church,
- august,
- baccalaureate service,
- baptismal,
- buckram,
- celebration,
- celebratory,
- ceremonious,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- commemorative,
- commencement,
- conventional,
- convocation,
- courtly,
- decorous,
- dignified,
- dignity,
- duty,
- empty formality,
- eucharistic,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- extrinsicality,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formality,
- formalization,
- formula,
- formular,
- formulary,
- function,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- gravity,
- hieratic,
- holy rite,
- impersonality,
- imposing,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- institution,
- liturgic,
- liturgical,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- lofty,
- mannered,
- mode of worship,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- observance,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- paschal,
- performance,
- pomp,
- pomposity,
- pompous,
- practice,
- prescribed form,
- primness,
- religious ceremony,
- rigid,
- rigidness,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- sacerdotal,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set,
- solemn,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- starchiness,
- starchy,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- studied,
- stylization,
- stylized,
- weight,
- well-mannered
- formulary
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- (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections"
- of or relating to or of the nature of a formula related words >
- High-Church,
- Procrustean law,
- act,
- authoritative,
- baptismal,
- bill,
- binding,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- canonical,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- ceremony,
- code,
- conventionalized,
- criterion,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictated,
- dictation,
- didactic,
- duty,
- edict,
- enactment,
- eucharistic,
- extrinsic,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formality,
- formula,
- formular,
- function,
- guideline,
- hard and fast,
- holy rite,
- impersonal,
- institution,
- instructive,
- jus,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legalistic,
- legislation,
- lex,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- mandatory,
- maxim,
- measure,
- mode of worship,
- mystery,
- nominal,
- norm,
- norma,
- observance,
- office,
- official,
- order of nature,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- outward,
- paschal,
- pedantic,
- practice,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prescriptive,
- principle,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- regulation,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set form,
- solemnity,
- standard,
- standing order,
- statute,
- statutory,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- universal law
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- academic,
- accordant,
- affected,
- anal,
- arid,
- bedizened,
- bibliophagic,
- big-sounding,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convoluted,
- corresponding,
- declamatory,
- devoted to studies,
- didactic,
- diligent,
- doctrinaire,
- donnish,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- erudite,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- hair-splitting,
- harmonious,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inkhorn,
- kosher,
- labyrinthine,
- learned,
- legalistic,
- lexiphanic,
- literary,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mandarin,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- orotund,
- orthodox,
- ostentatious,
- outward,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantical,
- perfectionist,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- preceptorial,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- quibbling,
- rabbinic,
- rhetorical,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- scrupulous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- simpering,
- sonorous,
- square,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- straight,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
- superficial
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- being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences"
- of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
- relating to a surface; "superficial measurements"; "the superficial area of the wall" related words >
- 3-D,
- airy,
- amateur,
- amateurish,
- ankle-deep,
- apparent,
- appearing,
- arid,
- asinine,
- barren,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- catchpenny,
- characterless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- conventionalized,
- cortical,
- cosmetic,
- critical,
- cubic,
- cursory,
- dabbling,
- dead,
- depthless,
- dilettante,
- dilettantish,
- dimensional,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- epidermal,
- epidermic,
- etiolated,
- exomorphic,
- expeditious,
- exterior,
- external,
- extrinsic,
- fade,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- few,
- flat,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- fluffy,
- flying,
- foolish,
- footling,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fourth-dimensional,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- fringe,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- furious,
- futile,
- general,
- half-assed,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- hasty,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hurried,
- idle,
- immature,
- immediate,
- impersonal,
- inane,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inexcitable,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- instant,
- insubstantial,
- jejune,
- knee-deep,
- last-minute,
- leaden,
- legalistic,
- lifeless,
- light,
- little,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- meager,
- meaningless,
- miniature,
- negligible,
- no great shakes,
- nominal,
- not deep,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- on the spot,
- on the surface,
- open,
- ostensible,
- otiose,
- out,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- pale,
- pallid,
- passing,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- perfunctory,
- peripheral,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prompt,
- proportional,
- public,
- quick,
- roundabout,
- sciolistic,
- seeming,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-rooted,
- shallow-witted,
- shoal,
- short,
- silly,
- sketchy,
- skin-deep,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- slender,
- slight,
- slow,
- small,
- smattering,
- snap,
- solemn,
- sophomoric,
- space,
- space-time,
- spatial,
- spatiotemporal,
- speedy,
- spherical,
- spiritless,
- stereoscopic,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- surface,
- swift,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thin,
- three-dimensional,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- two-dimensional,
- uncritical,
- unimportant,
- unlively,
- unprofound,
- urgent,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- visible,
- volatile,
- volumetric,
- windy,
- wooden
- surface
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- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something; "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"
- the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"
- on the surface; "surface materials of the moon"
- come to the surface related words >
- 3-D,
- acreage,
- ankle-deep,
- apparent,
- appear,
- appearing,
- area,
- arise,
- bail out,
- bob up,
- border,
- boundary,
- breadth,
- break cover,
- break forth,
- break water,
- burst forth,
- circumference,
- clerestory,
- come,
- come forth,
- come out,
- come up,
- concrete,
- continuum,
- conventionalized,
- cortex,
- cortical,
- cover,
- covering,
- crop up,
- crust,
- cubic,
- cursoriness,
- cursory,
- debouch,
- depthless,
- dimension,
- dimensional,
- disembogue,
- dive,
- effuse,
- emanate,
- emerge,
- emptiness,
- empty space,
- envelope,
- epidermal,
- epidermic,
- epidermis,
- erupt,
- exomorphic,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extent,
- exterior,
- exteriority,
- external,
- extrinsic,
- extrinsically,
- extrude,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- feel,
- field,
- finish,
- flat,
- float up,
- flood negative,
- flood the tanks,
- fly up,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fountain,
- fourth-dimensional,
- fringe,
- front,
- galactic space,
- gloss,
- go below,
- grain,
- granular texture,
- gush,
- impersonal,
- indentation,
- infinite space,
- integument,
- interface,
- interstellar space,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- jejune,
- jet,
- jump out,
- jump up,
- knee-deep,
- knub,
- leap up,
- legalistic,
- light,
- lineaments,
- materialize,
- measure,
- mere scratch,
- nap,
- no depth,
- no water,
- nominal,
- not deep,
- nothingness,
- nub,
- on the surface,
- open,
- ostensible,
- ostensibly,
- out,
- outer,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outer space,
- outermost,
- outline,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- outwardly,
- pave,
- pedantic,
- peripheral,
- periphery,
- pile,
- pinprick,
- pit,
- plane,
- pock,
- pop up,
- proportion,
- proportional,
- protrude,
- protuberance,
- public,
- ridgepole,
- rig for diving,
- rind,
- rise,
- rocket,
- roof,
- roofpole,
- rooftop,
- roundabout,
- sally,
- sally forth,
- scratch,
- seeming,
- shag,
- shallow,
- shallow-rooted,
- shallowness,
- shell,
- shoal,
- shoaliness,
- shoot up,
- show up,
- side,
- skin,
- skin-deep,
- skyrocket,
- slight,
- slightness,
- space,
- space-time,
- spatial,
- spatial extension,
- spatiotemporal,
- sphere,
- spherical,
- spread,
- spring up,
- spurt,
- start up,
- stereoscopic,
- structure,
- stylized,
- submerge,
- superficial,
- superficial extension,
- superficiality,
- superficially,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface texture,
- tarmac,
- texture,
- thin,
- three-dimensional,
- to all appearances,
- top,
- top floor,
- top side,
- topside,
- topsides,
- tract,
- trivial,
- triviality,
- two-dimensional,
- unprofound,
- upleap,
- upper side,
- upshoot,
- upside,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upstart,
- vault up,
- veneer,
- visible,
- void,
- volume,
- volumetric,
- wale,
- weave,
- woof
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